My wife’s a middle child. She tells stories about how she felt left out and sometimes caught in the middle. You may feel like you’re always the middle person on the team. Not the best, not the worst. And we're caught in the awkward couple of weeks in the middle of Thanksgiving and...
The Black Friday name originated in Philadelphia about 4 decades ago as a description of the crazy traffic that occurs as people race to stores for after-thanksgiving sales but later became the day that describes when retailers start to turn a profit (according to wikipedia). It’s become the Sabbath day of materialism. We...
We’re just days away. Thanksgiving comes before Christmas although you wouldn’t know from the Jingly commercials on TV! Thanksgiving has sadly become little more than the official start of the holiday season. And that’s a shame. We have so much to be thankful for. Our salvation, grace, mercy, family, friends, and the list...
Many of you know, I'm Canadian (but lived in the US for the last dozen years). So this week; although we celebrate Thanksgiving here in the US, it seems late to me. I'm used to having Canadian Thanksgiving in October. And, since I'm used to all the questions from Americans, here's the...
I was in the mall today. Christmas is everywhere! It seems like it arrives in retail far to early! Even before Halloween or early October -- soon it'll be late summer when the Christmas tree make their appearance! In my family, we always waited to mid November before even mentioning the Holidays! Well, no...
